To quote the man himself, “Well, what have we here?” The Lando TV series Donald Glover and his brother Stephen Glover were announced to be writing a couple months ago will no longer be a series, but a feature film starring Glover as the galaxy’s most charismatic swindler.
Glover played Lando Calrissian, first originated by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back, in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. It detailed how he and Han Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich, met as they joined forces in a heist and how Han later ‘won’ the Millennium Falcon off of Lando. Glover’s portrayal was one of the highlights of Solo and has been a role he’s been keen to play again.
Stephen Glover was a guest on the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out and revealed the proposed TV series had since become a film. The news was later confirmed by Variety from Lucasfilm.
“It’s not even a show…the idea right now is to do a movie,” said Stephen Glover during his podcast appearance. “Right now, because of the strike, it’s kind of like telephone, all of the information.”
The Glovers had reached a deal with Lucasfilm to write Lando prior to both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Work on the film will not begin until the strikes have ended.
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